Tag Archive | "property rights"

The Lost Art of Locating Property Corners

March 18, 2011 No comments yet

Article by Glen Tanner, Professional Land Surveyor, Copyright 2011, Used by Permission The art of finding property corners is being lost. The following picture shows what inspired this article. The two rebar, a #4 rebar and a #5 rebar, shown in the photo to the right are 1.9 feet apart and set in 1994 or [...]

“Survey Land Twice, Clear-Cut Once”

December 13, 2010 No comments yet

I read an article with the above title that reminded me of surveys I've been involved with over the years. In most cases the land owner hired a logging company to clear cut their property and the loggers got over the property line in their zeal to get the "big trees that were out there." [...]

Google Street View Raises Privacy Issues

August 14, 2010 No comments yet

This is a followup to my August 12th article in which I mentioned the Google Street View photos that have been taken all over the United States. I read today that Google has announced they plan to launch Street View in 20 German cities.  Seems that a LOT of the German people remember too well [...]